Best 292 quotes in «tennis quotes» category

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times ­ it is there.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes.

Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door a second after it closed.

Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.

The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

The older I get, the better I used to be.